{"id":16983,"date":"2024-12-25T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T11:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/i-spent-a-week-working-exercising-and-relaxing-in-virtual-reality-im-shocked-to-say-it-finally-works-ed-newton-rex\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T11:39:08","slug":"i-spent-a-week-working-exercising-and-relaxing-in-virtual-reality-im-shocked-to-say-it-finally-works-ed-newton-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/i-spent-a-week-working-exercising-and-relaxing-in-virtual-reality-im-shocked-to-say-it-finally-works-ed-newton-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"I spent a week working, exercising and relaxing in virtual reality. I\u2019m shocked to say it finally works | Ed Newton-Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bar some glitches, I think a tipping point has been reached \u2013 except when it comes to virtual gigs<\/p>\n

I\u2019m writing this from a room that\u2019s slowly orbiting the Earth. Behind the floating screen in front of me, through a giant opening where a wall should be, the planet slowly spins, so close that it takes up most of my field of vision. It\u2019s morning in Australia to my right; India and the first hints of Europe are dotted with lights up and to my left. The soft drone of the air circulation system hums quietly behind me.<\/p>\n

I spent a week doing everything that I could \u2013 working, exercising, composing \u2013 on my virtual reality<\/a> headset. This was the year virtual reality threatened to go mainstream, with prices becoming more attainable and Apple entering the market, and so I wanted to see how far VR has come since I first tried it in the mid-2010s, when the main experiences on offer were nausea-inducing rollercoaster simulators. I used a recent model from Meta, called the Quest 3, and the conclusion was clear: this thing now works. It feels a little unfinished, but we\u2019ve reached the point where VR could at last <\/strong>become genuinely useful.<\/p>\n

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\nBar some glitches, I think a tipping point has been reached \u2013 except when it comes to virtual gigs
\nI\u2019m writing this from a room that\u2019s slowly orbiting the Earth. Behind the floating screen in front of me, through a giant opening where a wall should be, the planet slowly spins, so close that it takes up most of my field of vision. It\u2019s morning in Australia to my right; India and the first hints of Europe are dotted with lights up and to my left. The soft drone of the air circulation system hums quietly behind me.
\nI spent a week doing everything that I could \u2013 working, exercising, composing \u2013 on my virtual reality headset. This was the year virtual reality threatened to go mainstream, with prices becoming more attainable and Apple entering the market, and so I wanted to see how far VR has come since I first tried it in the mid-2010s, when the main experiences on offer were nausea-inducing rollercoaster simulators. I used a recent model from Meta, called the Quest 3, and the conclusion was clear: this thing now works. It feels a little unfinished, but we\u2019ve reached the point where VR could at last become genuinely useful. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bar some glitches, I think a tipping point has been reached \u2013 except when it comes to virtual gigs I\u2019m writing this from a room that\u2019s slowly orbiting the Earth. Behind the floating screen in front of me, through a giant opening where a wall should be, the planet slowly spins, so close that it …<\/p>\n

I spent a week working, exercising and relaxing in virtual reality. I\u2019m shocked to say it finally works | Ed Newton-Rex<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}